The events were cool the first time they came around, I participated and got the achievements, it was kind of fun.

It got old pretty fast, so now I don't even read the advertisement banners or have any knowledge of any events, crown crate seasons, featured crown store items, or literally any advertisements ZOS attempts to show me. I don't even look at it. I don't think about it. I don't care about it.

When I get over saturated with advertisements, I just completely disengage from the marketing efforts. I'm pretty much only aware of new expansions and DLC because I'm an officer in a raiding guild, and the other officers let me know.

tinythinker wrote: »

Companies do it because it works.

Only up to a point, and ESO sailed past that at breakneck speed quite some time ago. In relation to ESO "limited time only" has become background noise to me.

Have I spent money on a few limited time only things? Yes. But I didn't buy them because they were limited time only.

And I've seen it backfire spectacularly.

I saw the elk mount coming in datamines and bought heavily discounted crowns in preparation. And sat on them. So the outrageous 4500 crown price worked out to be a not too bad $20. I bought one.

I befriended a new player to the game after helping them with a world boss. They saw my npc banker - another discounted crown purchase - and bought one full price. Also subbed. They were throwing money at the game and prepared to throw even more.

But then they asked about where to buy my elk. I had to tell them it was limited time only, and very few such mounts had ever made a comeback. Instead they return only in gambling boxes. So they'd either have to wait an unknown amount of time for them to maybe turn up in crates - not every mount had, eg. glow kitty - then spend an unknowable amount of money gambling for them.

They were very put out, and stopped playing.

The events are seriously out of control. There is less time without an event than there is with an event.
I don't mind the events in general, as they promote playing older content that is otherwise quite barren of players. But having 2 weeks of Jester Event followed by 1 week break before starting a FIVE week long Anniversay Event ... 5 weeks.

That 70 to 72 Event tickets. Why not just hand them out as a login reward at this point? I mean it's not like eating the cake once per day is much more effort than just logging in. I know this is done so people can get the 4 feathers again so they can get their next Indrik. But why is that even necessary? You could have kept the young Indrik in the collection and just added the evolved once once you got the 4 berries for each.

Once upon a time we played games to have fun. It seems many now play them to claim victim status.


Whoa is me, I play a game with optional purchases for a limited time. If you've ever bought anything on sale ever, anywhere, you've taken part in the same practice.

My biggest nemesis during my college days was the "Shamrock Shake" at McDonalds....

I don't mind things coming and going out of season. So long as they will be back.

So these events, if time is of the essence, that is fine. If there was 1 event a year, where everything is up for grabs, that would make up for it. I could imagine having 3 berries and 8 tickets, the day before it switched off, I'd be pissed.

While none of us are forced to participate in events or purchase/grind limited time offers I think many also don’t want to feel they have missed out on something. For some time now I have felt events and promotions are never ending and are becoming overwhelming. I look forward to the rare few days between events/promotions when I feel I can just play the game and not feel obligated to participate in the same repetitive quests I did last year for a new title/emote/memento. Events/promotions should be done once in a while to make them feel like they are adding value and something new to the game instead of just being thrown at us all the time so they feel more like laborious chores.

Zacuel wrote: »

Lol... Kinda true.

I'm mostly over it.... If not for the powdered mother of pearl drops.
That's what got me.

Well played zos... Well played.

You're lucky! my drops have beeen nothing but garbage on 7 chars, each possible day - junk.

I mean it is free junk - so I'll take it no complaints! but nothing I didn't have 1000s of xD

To me it's like this with this limited thing. First of all I have limited time in the day to spend on playing the game and I have to decide what to spend it on. I pick ESO because I enjoy it. In ESO there's a number of activities to pick. Quite a few of them are activities I do enjoy. Here are my options:
- I can do some questing as I am a little behind, as I still haven't touched Summerset and Elsweyr is just around the corner. But because of my limited time I haven't ever done Covenant and Pact storylines. I do like to experience stories in order, I skipped around in ESO before and regreted it a bit as I like those small easter eggs and such that are placed there for players following the story (I did Morrowind and Clockwork and then Orsinium and regret a bit that I didn't do them in order).
So long story short I'm doing Cadwell's Silver now questwise, then I'll move to Gold and then to Summerset and ideally I'd like to do those before Elsweyr comes out. And yet, there's not a time limit on that, worst case scenario I'll do those afeter Elswer.
Phew, that came out long.
- Next, are the activities I just enjoy, like battlegrounds, preparing for dungeons as I'd like to try vet ones, a bit of farming since I want this sweet new house etc. Not really a time limit on those either.
- And finally the events, which I enjoyed quite a bit and invested quite a lot of time in. I have two indriks, one berry, two feathers and eight tickets. I'm in over the heels and I like getting stuff I normally can't get, like motifs and furnishing schematics. There's been quite a lot of those lately and they are limited time, I can't do them later like the stuff above. They are limited. And that's the crux of the problem. The events are fine, fun but there's just been a little to much of them and they take up the time spent on other things as they end and we don't know if they return next year.
So that's not THAT big of a problem for me, I don't cry about it, but I understand why people can feel burned out by that as I do feel that too, a little. The events, while fun, take the time spent in actually playing the game as you can't postphone them for later, like you can do with other activities.

As for Crown Store limiting, yeah, it sucks. You can't manage your entertainment budget with those unclear sale periods, with those showcases that don't give us prices in advance and other stuff like that. I'd probably be buying something every month if everything was available all the time, now I'm not gonna get coersed into spending extra just because of an arbitrary limited sale. I spend as much as I want to spend, wave other things goodbye, and then look at bare store for months before there's something that I like in it. It's less than optimal. And I refuse to give into the scam boxes, don't get me started on those.

I hope I didn't ramble too much, please be gentle with me.

Hand_Bacon wrote: »

Once upon a time we played games to have fun. It seems many now play them to claim victim status.


Whoa is me, I play a game with optional purchases for a limited time. If you've ever bought anything on sale ever, anywhere, you've taken part in the same practice.

My biggest nemesis during my college days was the "Shamrock Shake" at McDonalds....

An artificial scarcity tactic is much different compared to a regular limited time sale.

Sounds like folks need some self-control and less FOMO. I'm someone who has spent entirely too much time and money on this game(without regret), but I do not bust my butt for the limited time events/items unless I actually want it. Control yourself. I'm thinking folks are either immature and do not understand how the world of commerce (and sales) works, or just want to complain for the sake of it.

Also, if you play long enough, you'll see everything "limited" come back around. I was so happy being the brassiest assassin around, now, not so much ;(

I bought Frostmare the first time it was in the store. I think it was the first crown store mount they sold after console release. I flaunted that horse for a good year or more until it showed up in the store again I miss my flaunting days lol

Gorguzkhalrwb17_ESO wrote: »

An artificial scarcity tactic is much different compared to a regular limited time sale.

You're right, you might actually NEED the thing on sale.

Events are good, I think it's this pesky Indrik mount rubbish they have started up. They now realize they need to run constant events in order to adhere to the rules of an idea they created perhaps, a little hastily.

I do miss just logging on and doing what I want to do, there doesn't seem to be enough hours in the day anymore for ESO and life.

I guess it's a cash-grab. As usual, the more events they put up, the more stuff they can put up in the crown store and the more people they draw into playing the game, the more crown sales they are going to get.

Danikat wrote: »

Thing is, very few of the festival rewards are actually limited and with very few exceptions (specifically New Life and the Jester's Festival) there is absolutely no new or limited time content.

There's the indrik berries and feathers of course and possibly the outfit pieces (and even those can be bought from other players after the event, although the price will shoot up). But as far as I know everything else available is the same materials, motifs etc. that you can get all year round.

That's why, until this year, I never really bothered with any of the special events - an extra chance at the same stuff we normally get doesn't interest me, especially when so many events (not this one, but many others) involve competing with other players to complete the quests.

I understand starting off feeling like you have to do it because ZOS are telling you it's special and limited and you'll miss out if you don't. But I would have thought once each person has been through that once and realised there's not really anything to miss out on if you don't do it they wouldn't fall for exactly the same marketing a second time. If you enjoy it then sure, go ahead and do as much as you like. But the people complaining about being forced to grind special events whilst continuing to do it make no sense to me.

The only thing that is making the same old stuff special during the event is that we are not having to pay outrageous prices at guild traders for what we're getting. I want to make my main toon a master crafter someday, but there are things in the game I just don't enjoy doing (PvP, timed stealth missions to name a couple). By having this event where I'm getting motifs, plans, and recipes, some of which only drop during activities I don't do, by doing things I like doing, is a wonderful thing for me. I'm skipping PvP week in the event but I'll have a chance to get Tharn outfit drops during the last week. So it will work out.